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    Religious social identity religious belief and anti-immigration sentiment
    (Cambridge University Press, 2015) Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom; Gizem Arikan; Marie Courtemanche; Bloom, Pazit Ben-Nun; Ben-Nun Bloom, Pazit; Arikan, Gizem; Courtemanche, Marie
    Somewhat paradoxically numerous scholars in various disciplines have found that religion induces negative attitudes towards immigrants while others find that it fuels feelings of compassion. We offer a framework that accounts for this discrepancy. Using two priming experiments conducted among American Catholics Turkish Muslims and Israeli Jews we disentangle the role of religious social identity and religious belief and differentiate among types of immigrants based on their ethnic and religious similarity to or difference from members of the host society. We find that religious social identity increases opposition to immigrants who are dissimilar to in-group members in religion or ethnicity while religious belief engenders welcoming attitudes toward immigrants of the same religion and ethnicity particularly among the less conservative devout. These results suggest that different elements of the religious experience exert distinct and even contrasting effects on immigration attitudes manifested in both the citizenry's considerations of beliefs and identity and its sensitivity to cues regarding the religion of the target group. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.